Have you ever thought about what you would do if.....

Your husband lost his job? We are facing that question now. For the past several weeks, Chaparral has had several cut backs. We took a hit to our time for the week, but this weekend they had their first round of layoffs. We WERE NOT laid off, nor were any of his employees. My thought, we might not always be so lucky. Courtney is in a supervisory role, not a field role. Who knows how long they will keep the middle man?

Our greatest concern is his medicines. Without a job, we have no insurance. We are looking at almost $2,000 worth of medication each month! I have already begun looking for a small part time job, or a better full time job. Just in case..

I keep hearing, make it to April and things will turn around. Well, I hope April is as far as we have to go before this market turns around!

Lots of catching up to do!

Sorry for the delay in posting. Time just seems to get away from me.

First, we are back to school and things are going well. Brittni's dorm was broken into by a sicko that they found shaving in a thong in the girls bathrooms at 5:30 in the morning. Lots of rumors and we don't know the whole story, but apparently he had been in and out of that paticular dorm over Christmas break. No one was there but I guess he was scoping the place out. Later that week, he attacked a girl in front of the other dorm. She ran into the dorm with him on her back. She tried to pepper spray him, but accidently sprayed herself. The RA called 911 and the police came. In the mean time they knocked the guy off her back and laid on the floor until the police got there. It was a really weird situation. They have also said he was involoved in an accident over the Christmas break and sustained a head injury. Not sure if that has anything to do with it, but apparently was never a problem prior to that. Brittni was never in danger, and has since started taking Jujitsu classes just in case.

Courtney's company had it first round of cut backs last week. A lot of hours were cut, including Courtney's and his departments, but the hardest hit for us was Justin. He was knocked down to part time. He is searching fast and furious for a full time job as he and Brittni have found a place and he was hoping to move into it in the middle of February. We are hoping this is the only cut and that the market turns around soon.


Courtney's dad got engaged over the break and we will be traveling with his whole family and my Mom to Arkansas for the wedding. It will be in Eureka Springs. It has been 6 years since we were there. We went for Bob and Amy's wedding in September of 2002.


I am sure I have lots of pics and stuff I need to post, but I don't the time right now.

Hope you are all well. Cindi

This is for a special someone. You know who you are....

We haven't given up on you, don't give up on yourself! We love you very much

Fun with the Wii

Santa brought the family a Wii this year. We have had great fun playing it. Courtney called it a W, I, I, as a code name. I think he really thought the kids didn't know what he was talking about! The pics below are of Courtney's dad, our friends "D & L", and Hunter's little friend "P".

A few pics from Christmas 2008

Courtney modeling his GI, and staring at his cell phone. He had asked for a personal cell phone so Santa agreed. He put it in Courtney's stocking and then Justin called him Christmas morning. It was funny to see his face. The GI is for his martial arts that is doing. We are trying to convince him to enter into a tournament this summer. He won't agree, but we haven't given up.
Hunter and his Ipod.
Brittni and Justin opening before they had to leave to go to Justin's family. This was the first year we had to "share" Brittni. It went well, but it was weird not having her with us for Christmas Eve.
Connor loves SpongeBob, and yes he is that tall!
Ari loves them Yankees.
Our friends the "W's" joined us this year!
My mom and step-dad, Christmas Eve 2008. They had to be here then because my mom had cooked up a surprise for my sister in Florida. I can't believe we pulled it off!

Hunter lost a tooth....

on a field trip! Mr. Independent even pulled it by himself. Here is a pic of him shortly after he got home from school. The second pic is of him holding the tooth. He was soo excited. The only problem, he only lost one so he couldn't sing "All I want for Christmas is my two Front Teeth". He is already signing, all I want for Valentine's day is my two front teeth, he is hoping to pull the other one shortly!